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The 65-year-old wants to continue capitalising on the fierce competition for places at the most successful clubs after signing Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez from Real Madrid and Barcelona respectively in recent transfer windows.

He added: "Now we are in a position where we can keep our big players, but sometimes there are so many big players in the other big, big clubs who are good but do not play, so after a year or two you can get a good deal.

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"Sanchez is a case. Pedro (at Chelsea) is another case, Arjen Robben (at Bayern Munich) is another, he was at Real Madrid."